David Becker via Getty Images The origin of the name "Bluetooth" goes back more than a thousand years. Bluetooth technology is a useful tool that has become quite a staple in the 21st century. But have you ever wondered why the heck it’s called that? Apparently the idea came from a member of the Bluetooth invention team ― an Intel mobile computing engineer named Jim Kardach. “Bluetooth was borrowed from the 10th-century, second king of Denmark, King Harald Bluetooth; who was famous for uniting Scandinavia just as we intended to unite the PC and cellular industries with a short-range wireless link,” he recalled in a 2008 article for EE Times.

Source: Huffington Post May 17, 2019 04:06 UTC